3 weeks to go!

There's just 3 weeks to go until the next round of school holidays, that's right February half term is just around the corner! If you're not sure what to do with your children this half term, or how to keep them active, then why not book your child onto one of Fit For Sport's fantastic healthy activity kids camps... With over 40 NEW FANTASTIC Kids camp venues for 2012, and many of these sites also offering all day options for 3-4 year olds it's the perfect way to keep your children active.  Check out www.fitforsport.co.uk to find your nearest venue! Book by Friday 20th January quoting 'Strawberry' and you'll recieve a 10% Early Bird discount.  Check out the range of k...

A Handy Guide to Basic Training Terms

It’s a new year and a new start for many. Health kicks, detox’s and ambitious New Year’s resolutions are all underway. If you’re new to fitness it’s easy to get confused and even put off by all the terminology that surrounds exercising. But don’t let it scare you off! Use our handy guide to basic training terms courtesy of Thomson fitness alongside HealthClubTV videos to get the best from your workout, and if you get stuck leave your questions in the comments!     The Basics   Sets This is performing an exercise for a prescribed number of times. For example 12 crunches could be one set.   Reps or Repetitions This is the numb...

REACH Grenada

REACH Grenada is a New York City based charity with a mission to improve the health and well-being of Grenada’s most vulnerable youth. Founded in 2008 by Karen Lawson Ph.D. and Inner Being Yoga’s Neo Moreton LL.B.(Hons) REACH Grenada works with children residing in Grenada's orphanages where many were previously victims of physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse, neglect and abandonment.  The REACH Grenada programs aim to equip formerly maltreated children with the essential tools for a hope-filled life. Their multi-dimensional program promotes children’s long-term healthy development and empowers caregivers to care for the children by giving them tools to be loving ...

Fit For Sport

Fit For Sport is the UK’s leading healthy lifestyle activities provider with over 20 years experience delivering activities for children and families. They are committed to ‘keeping the future fit’ and educating our children and their families on the benefits of leading a healthy lifestyle. please see below for more information on some of Fit For Sports fantastic Children and Family activities. You can also take a look at our Kids Fitness videos to see Fit For Sport exercises in action.   KIDS ACTIVITIES OFSTED Registered Kids Camps across the UK Fit For Sport Kids Camps cater for 32,000 children each year. These camps include partnerships with school...

Get ready for Janathon

As the days get colder and nights darker it gets harder to get motivated. So whilst you enjoy the parties and the festive food, give your New Year a kick-start by getting involved with Janathon.   What is a Janathon? Janathon is the colder brother of Juneathon. It started life as a running competition but if you can't or don't want to run every day, you can still join in by cycling, walking, rowing, weights, swimming, dancing, yoga, pilates, making snowmen!  Just do something every day in January. Get involved by registering on the Janathon site.    Then what? Got a blog? Write about your daily exercise within 24 hours. You don't have to write a 20,000 word...

A day on the Thomson Diet Plan

If you want to make a dramatic change to your figure exercise alone won't cut it. You need to take a good look at what you put into your body. The successes of the Thomson Diet Club are down to this holistic approach. That doesn't mean you're stuck with celery stick and lettuce leaves 24/7! It's all about fuelling your body for the job you want it to do. You need energy for your workout, and a low low fat ready meal alone isn't going to do the trick. Team this healthy diet with a HealthClubTV workout and you'll be on track to reach your goal weight!   Here's what a day on the Thomson Diet Club plan would look like: Breakfast Egg white Spanish omelette Water, Tea or ...

Life is Like a Box of Chocolates

‘Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get’ I’m going to spin it around, what if you knew what you were going to get from a box? You could make your own custom made box of successful weight loss!  Whenever we are given a box of chocolates we always turn to our favourite ones and the same goes for our weight loss habits. We always go back to one or two things that have worked for us in the past. I want you to start thinking about why you go back, if you have done them before, why do you need to turn to them again? Are they unsustainable and unrealistic in the long term? I’m going to share my own successful tips which I use wit...

No excuses!

No time. Can’t get to the gym. Not quite sure how to use the equipment correctly. No equipment or space at home. Does this all sound a little too familiar? Whatever your excuse, it’s time to stop to make a change and get ready to kick start your fitness with HealthClubTV HealthClubTV exercise clips are high quality videos with expert advice on carrying out your workout correctly. These tips and advice are vital to getting the most out of your workout and avoiding injury! Once you've chosen your clips you can download them to your device, access your account via our website, or through our range of apps. No time? Make the most of your valuable time, by using the HealthClubTV ...

Small Changes = Big Impact

Relatively small losses in weight can make significant increases in health and reduce the risk of developing health problems later in life. Our Trainer of the Week, Simon Kidd, takes us through the small changes that can lead to drastic inprovements... We all know someone who is doing another diet.  Wouldn’t it be nice if the changes you made could become permanent? The key here is to look at what happens in your daily life and decide to live healthily. It’s your body and it has to last a long time. This is all about making choices. Compare how much effort might be spent on hair, make-up and clothes with looking after your body itself.   Here are some ways you can m...

HealthClubTV at Leisure Industry Week

Leisure Industry Week, or LIW to those in the know, is the biggest business event in health and fitness. It's THE place to find out the newest trends in fitness, try out the latest gear and of course make those all important contacts! Put simply it's a massive event for those in the Health & Fitness biz, and of course we couldn't allow it to go by without being part of the action! HealthClubTV's Director Chris Cooke is down at the Birmingham NEC: "It's 3pm and I've already meetings with lots of various companies, but most importantly people and decision makers. LIW is the best opportunity to network, share contacts and get introduced to people face to face. Through contacts we expandin...

What to do when the workouts not working

How many times have you heard someone say this? I’ve been exercising five days a week and eating less for the last 6 months and haven’t noticed a significant change in my weight. What can I do to get the pounds to start coming off? It's a common problem, but luckily we've got our Trainer of the Week Kevin Hubble on hand to give us his top 3 tips.   Make sure you are eating enough. Although this sounds strange, if you don’t eat enough, your body goes into starvation mode and will lower the amount of calories you burn on a daily basis. The best way to figure out how much to eat is to meet with a registered dietician. They are qualified to analyze your current f...

3 ways to make healthy food the easy choice

Eating healthily can be a huge challenge, especially when we're on the go. HealthClubTV's Trainer of the Week Stephen Tongue tells us how we can avoid grabbing those bad foods on the run. Picture the scene it's been a manic day at work, you managed to find time to grab a quick sandwich from the high street for a working lunch. It hasnt satisfied you and now it's gone 3pm and your stomach is making a distracting grumbling sound. You race to grab an afternoon snack but all you can find is chocolate, flapjacks and muffins. You know it won't help your weight loss regime but you gotta eat right? With limited time you say "to hell with it" and grab and go. So many poor diet choices are made when...

Cardio or weights

A question I get asked a lot by my clients is which is better for weight loss, cardio vascular exercise or resistance exercise? Cardio Exercise for weight/fat loss Cardio vascular exercise can be very beneficial in terms of weight loss and overall wellbeing. It can help to boost your metabolism, improve fitness, and decrease body fat and cholesterol levels. However the average person's cardio routine is ineffective and boring. Let's look at ways that you can get the most out of cardio exercise. Cardio exercise is all about working to the right intensity. If you just plod along on the cross trainer for 20 mins at level 2 and expect to loose weight it's not going to work! You need to get y...

Super set workout: Legs, Bums and Tums

This month's workout has been developed by Faster trainer Andy Elliott, it targets Legs, Bums and Tums in a Super Set training style. Super sets are back to back exercises with little rest between transitions, this keeps tension on the muscles making your body work harder! Complete this workout 3 times a week and you’ll notice the difference.   What you'll need HealthClubTV videos: Box Steps Side Steps Ball Wall Squat Wide Squat Ball Inner Thigh Squeeze Deep Lunges Ball Reverse Leg Curl Ball Curl A stop watch An exercise ball Optional additional weights   The workout 1. First, we need to get warmed up by raising the heart rate. Starting with 1 minute o...

4 steps to deal with emotional eating

Emotional eating can often be one of the biggest challenges faced by anyone trying to lose weight, today Faster Fitness trainer Sally Pears shares her expert advice. The interesting thing about emotional eating is that it’s not necessarily having negative emotions per say that’s the problem, but rather the suppression of those emotions. A few years ago I worked on a research project looking at the suppression of cravings and one of the main findings in craving research was that suppressing a craving may well work for a short period of time, but later people often experienced a ‘rebound’ effect, where the number of thoughts about the craved substance increased ...

5 foods you may be eating to get lean but are in fact making you fat!

It’s vital that you read this blog if you are attempting to improve your eating habits in order to banish those unwanted pounds. You see it may surprise you that some of the ‘health’ foods marketed directly at you are in fact making you fatter and will end up jeopardising your efforts to get lean. As a weight loss specialist I get very aggravated by what I see as lies and mistruth regarding the health and weight loss industry. I decided to write this blog entry in response to the week-long appearance of the promo people handing out their breakfast soya poison to what I imagine are gleefully happy people who thought they were doing their bit for healthy eating that day. ...

Train the HealthClubTV way!

Every week we will add exercises, nutrition tips to build up your comprehensive workout to get you fit in just 8 weeks. Week 1    -    3 x 3 x 3 Add this simple workout, which will be the base for future programmes. Do as many repetitions as you can of each of the following exercises and record how many you achieve:   Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Pull Ups       Tricep Dips       Crunches       After completing the exercises repeat so that you do all exercises 3 times, each time recording your results.  When complete also note down the time it took you. Repeat this mini worko...

TrueVibe has arrived!

The third generation vibration platform has arrived, the TrueVibe.  With a combination of high quality stainless steel, German engineered software and an ergonomic handle; the TrueVibe is a step towards the ultimate in whole body vibration training.  The motors work together to create a linear vibration platform with the ability to stimulate the users kinetic chain at a rate of anything from 30 to 50 times per second. These vibrations will create an involuntary reflex which in turn will increase stability, strength and power providing the user with the ultimate workout tool.  The handle has been designed to be adjustable, allowing the user or trainer to concentrate on perfec...